Information Extraction from Web-Scale N-Gram DataGerard de Melo
Search engines are increasingly relying on structured data to provide direct answers to certain types of queries. However, extracting such structured data from text is challenging, especially due to the scarcity of explicitly expressed knowledge. Even when relying on large document collections, pattern-based information extraction approaches typically expose only insufficient amounts of information. This paper evaluates to what extent n-gram statistics, derived from volumes of texts several orders of magnitude larger than typical corpora, can allow us to overcome this bottleneck. An extensive experimental evaluation is provided for three different binary relations, comparing different sources of n-gram data as well as different learning algorithms.
Redundancy analysis on linked data #cold2014 #ISWC2014honghan2013
Wu, Honghan, Boris Villazon-Terrazas, Jeff Z. Pan, and Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez. “How Redundant Is It? – An Empirical Analysis on Linked Datasets.” In ISWC COLD Workshop. 2014.
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1264/cold2014_WuVPG.pdf
This paper describes BABAR, a knowledge extraction and representation system, completely implemented in CLOS, that is primarily geared towards organizing and reasoning about knowledge extracted from the Wikipedia Website. The system combines natural language processing techniques, knowledge representation paradigms and machine learning algorithms. BABAR is currently an ongoing independent research project that when sufficiently mature, may provide various commercial opportunities.
BABAR uses natural language processing to parse both page name and page contents. It automatically generates Wikipedia topic taxonomies thus providing a model for organizing the approximately 4,000,000 existing Wikipedia pages. It uses similarity metrics to establish concept relevancy and clustering algorithms to group topics based on semantic relevancy. Novel algorithms are presented that combine approaches from the areas of machine learning and recommender systems. The system also generates a knowledge hypergraph which will ultimately be used in conjunction with an automated reasoner to answer questions about particular topics.
Keynote by Seth Grimes, presented at the Knowledge Extraction from Social Media workshop, November 12, 2012, preceding the International Semantic Web Conference
Information Extraction from Web-Scale N-Gram DataGerard de Melo
Search engines are increasingly relying on structured data to provide direct answers to certain types of queries. However, extracting such structured data from text is challenging, especially due to the scarcity of explicitly expressed knowledge. Even when relying on large document collections, pattern-based information extraction approaches typically expose only insufficient amounts of information. This paper evaluates to what extent n-gram statistics, derived from volumes of texts several orders of magnitude larger than typical corpora, can allow us to overcome this bottleneck. An extensive experimental evaluation is provided for three different binary relations, comparing different sources of n-gram data as well as different learning algorithms.
Redundancy analysis on linked data #cold2014 #ISWC2014honghan2013
Wu, Honghan, Boris Villazon-Terrazas, Jeff Z. Pan, and Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez. “How Redundant Is It? – An Empirical Analysis on Linked Datasets.” In ISWC COLD Workshop. 2014.
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1264/cold2014_WuVPG.pdf
This paper describes BABAR, a knowledge extraction and representation system, completely implemented in CLOS, that is primarily geared towards organizing and reasoning about knowledge extracted from the Wikipedia Website. The system combines natural language processing techniques, knowledge representation paradigms and machine learning algorithms. BABAR is currently an ongoing independent research project that when sufficiently mature, may provide various commercial opportunities.
BABAR uses natural language processing to parse both page name and page contents. It automatically generates Wikipedia topic taxonomies thus providing a model for organizing the approximately 4,000,000 existing Wikipedia pages. It uses similarity metrics to establish concept relevancy and clustering algorithms to group topics based on semantic relevancy. Novel algorithms are presented that combine approaches from the areas of machine learning and recommender systems. The system also generates a knowledge hypergraph which will ultimately be used in conjunction with an automated reasoner to answer questions about particular topics.
Keynote by Seth Grimes, presented at the Knowledge Extraction from Social Media workshop, November 12, 2012, preceding the International Semantic Web Conference
Dashboarding with Microsoft: Datazen & Power BIDavide Mauri
Power BI and Datazen are two tools that Microsoft offers to enable Mobile BI and Dashboarding for your BI solution. Guaranteed to generate the WOW effect and to make new friends among the C-Level managers, both tools fit in the Microsoft BI Vision and offer some unique features that will surely help end users to take more informed decisions.
In this session, Davide will show how we can work with them, how they can be configured and used, and we’ll also build some nice dashboards to start to get confident with the products. We’ll also publish them to make it available to any mobile platform existing on the planet.
Solving Big Data Challenges for Enterprise Application Performance ManagementTilmann Rabl
This is a presentation that was held at the 38th Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2012.
Full paper and additional information available at:
http://msrg.org/papers/vldb12-bigdata
Abstract:
As the complexity of enterprise systems increases, the need for monitoring and analyzing such systems also grows. A number of companies have built sophisticated monitoring tools that go far beyond simple resource utilization reports. For example, based on instrumentation and specialized APIs, it is now possible to monitor single method invocations and trace individual transactions across geographically distributed systems. This high-level of detail enables more precise forms of analysis and prediction but comes at the price of high data rates (i.e., big data). To maximize the benefit of data monitoring, the data has to be stored for an extended period of time for ulterior analysis. This new wave of big data analytics imposes new challenges especially for the application performance monitoring systems. The monitoring data has to be stored in a system that can sustain the high data rates and at the same time enable an up-to-date view of the underlying infrastructure. With the advent of modern key-value stores, a variety of data storage systems have emerged that are built with a focus on scalability and high data rates as predominant in this monitoring use case.
In this work, we present our experience and a comprehensive performance evaluation of six modern (open-source) data stores in the context of application performance monitoring as part of CA Technologies initiative. We evaluated these systems with data and workloads that can be found in application performance monitoring, as well as, on-line advertisement, power monitoring, and many other use cases. We present our insights not only as performance results but also as lessons learned and our experience relating to the setup and configuration complexity of these data stores in an industry setting.
How Intronis Reduced the Data Import Process With RingLead RingLead
"RingLead has been incredibly powerful. The power lies in its simplicity.”
Learn how Intronis uses RingLead to reduce the data import process from seven steps to one step.
Dimension Data – Enabling the Journey to the Cloud: Real Examplesitnewsafrica
Dimension Data – Enabling the Journey to the Cloud: Real Examples.
Presented by Grant Morgan, General Manager: Cloud at Dimension Data.
September 05, 2013 edition of the IT News Africa Innovation Dinner (www.innovationdinner.co.za)
A File-Based Approach for Recommender Systems in High-Performance Computing E...Simon Dooms
How to create a recommender system that works without a database backend and therefore allows perfect scaling across an arbitrary number of computing nodes and multiple cores?
Dashboarding with Microsoft: Datazen & Power BIDavide Mauri
Power BI and Datazen are two tools that Microsoft offers to enable Mobile BI and Dashboarding for your BI solution. Guaranteed to generate the WOW effect and to make new friends among the C-Level managers, both tools fit in the Microsoft BI Vision and offer some unique features that will surely help end users to take more informed decisions.
In this session, Davide will show how we can work with them, how they can be configured and used, and we’ll also build some nice dashboards to start to get confident with the products. We’ll also publish them to make it available to any mobile platform existing on the planet.
Solving Big Data Challenges for Enterprise Application Performance ManagementTilmann Rabl
This is a presentation that was held at the 38th Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2012.
Full paper and additional information available at:
http://msrg.org/papers/vldb12-bigdata
Abstract:
As the complexity of enterprise systems increases, the need for monitoring and analyzing such systems also grows. A number of companies have built sophisticated monitoring tools that go far beyond simple resource utilization reports. For example, based on instrumentation and specialized APIs, it is now possible to monitor single method invocations and trace individual transactions across geographically distributed systems. This high-level of detail enables more precise forms of analysis and prediction but comes at the price of high data rates (i.e., big data). To maximize the benefit of data monitoring, the data has to be stored for an extended period of time for ulterior analysis. This new wave of big data analytics imposes new challenges especially for the application performance monitoring systems. The monitoring data has to be stored in a system that can sustain the high data rates and at the same time enable an up-to-date view of the underlying infrastructure. With the advent of modern key-value stores, a variety of data storage systems have emerged that are built with a focus on scalability and high data rates as predominant in this monitoring use case.
In this work, we present our experience and a comprehensive performance evaluation of six modern (open-source) data stores in the context of application performance monitoring as part of CA Technologies initiative. We evaluated these systems with data and workloads that can be found in application performance monitoring, as well as, on-line advertisement, power monitoring, and many other use cases. We present our insights not only as performance results but also as lessons learned and our experience relating to the setup and configuration complexity of these data stores in an industry setting.
How Intronis Reduced the Data Import Process With RingLead RingLead
"RingLead has been incredibly powerful. The power lies in its simplicity.”
Learn how Intronis uses RingLead to reduce the data import process from seven steps to one step.
Dimension Data – Enabling the Journey to the Cloud: Real Examplesitnewsafrica
Dimension Data – Enabling the Journey to the Cloud: Real Examples.
Presented by Grant Morgan, General Manager: Cloud at Dimension Data.
September 05, 2013 edition of the IT News Africa Innovation Dinner (www.innovationdinner.co.za)
A File-Based Approach for Recommender Systems in High-Performance Computing E...Simon Dooms
How to create a recommender system that works without a database backend and therefore allows perfect scaling across an arbitrary number of computing nodes and multiple cores?
FAIR Data and Model Management for Systems Biology(and SOPs too!)Carole Goble
MultiScale Biology Network Springboard meeting, Nottingham, UK, 1 June 2015
FAIR Data and model management for Systems Biology
Over the past 5 years we have seen a change in expectations for the management of all the outcomes of research – that is the “assets” of data, models, codes, SOPs and so forth. Don’t stop reading. Yes, data management isn’t likely to win anyone a Nobel prize. But publications should be supported and accompanied by data, methods, procedures, etc. to assure reproducibility of results. Funding agencies expect data (and increasingly software) management retention and access plans as part of the proposal process for projects to be funded. Journals are raising their expectations of the availability of data and codes for pre- and post- publication. And the multi-component, multi-disciplinary nature of Systems Biology demands the interlinking and exchange of assets and the systematic recording of metadata for their interpretation.
Data and model management for the Systems Biology community is a multi-faceted one including: the development and adoption appropriate community standards (and the navigation of the standards maze); the sustaining of international public archives capable of servicing quantitative biology; and the development of the necessary tools and know-how for researchers within their own institutes so that they can steward their assets in a sustainable, coherent and credited manner while minimizing burden and maximising personal benefit.
The FAIRDOM (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable Data, Operations and Models) Initiative has grown out of several efforts in European programmes (SysMO and EraSysAPP ERANets and the ISBE ESRFI) and national initiatives (de.NBI, German Virtual Liver Network, SystemsX, UK SynBio centres). It aims to support Systems Biology researchers with data and model management, with an emphasis on standards smuggled in by stealth.
This talk will use the FAIRDOM Initiative to discuss the FAIR management of data, SOPs, and models for Sys Bio, highlighting the challenges multi-scale biology presents.
http://www.fair-dom.org
http://www.fairdomhub.org
http://www.seek4science.org
Today machine learning is entering many business and scientific applications. The life cycle of machine learning applications consists of data preprocessing for transforming the raw data into features, training a model using the features, and deploying the model for answering prediction queries. In order to guarantee accurate predictions, one has to continuously monitor and update the deployed model and pipeline. Current deployment platforms update the model using online learning methods. When online learning alone is not adequate to guarantee the prediction accuracy, some deployment platforms provide a mechanism for automatic or manual retraining of the model. While the online training is fast, the retraining of the model is time-consuming and adds extra overhead and complexity to the process of deployment.
We propose a novel continuous deployment approach for updating the deployed model using a combination of the incoming real- time data and the historical data. We utilize sampling techniques to include the historical data in the training process, thus eliminating the need for retraining the deployed model. We also offer online statistics computation and dynamic materialization of the preprocessed features, which further reduces the total training and data preprocessing time. In our experiments, we design and deploy two pipelines and models to process two real-world datasets. The experiments show that continuous deployment reduces the total training cost up to 15 times while providing the same level of quality when compared to the state-of-the-art deployment approaches.
Link to the Paper: https://openproceedings.org/2019/conf/edbt/EDBT19_paper_23.pdf
Semantically Enhanced Interactions between Heterogeneous Data Life-Cycles - A...Basil Ell
This presentation was given at MTSR 2013 - 7th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference, Thessaloniki, and is related the publication of the same title.
Abstract of the publication: This paper highlights how Semantic Web technologies facilitate new socio-technical interactions between researchers and libraries focussing research data in a Virtual Research Environment. Concerning data practices in the fields of social sciences and humanities, the worlds of researchers and librarians have so far been separate. The increased digitization of research data and the ubiquitous use of Web technologies change this situation and offer new capacities for interaction. This is realized as a semantically enhanced Virtual Research Environment, which offers the possibility to align the previously disparate data life-cycles in research and in libraries covering a variety of inter-activities from importing research data via enriching research data and cleansing to exporting and sharing to allow for reuse.
Currently, collaborative qualitative and quantitative analyses of a large digital corpus of educational lexica are carried out using this semantic and wiki-based research environment.
The publication is available at http://www.aifb.kit.edu/images/a/ac/MTSR2013_publication_-_Basil_Ell%3B_Christoph_Schindler%3B_Marc_Rittberger.pdf
TUW-ASE Summer 2015 - Quality of Result-aware data analyticsHong-Linh Truong
This is a lecture from the advanced service engineering course from the Vienna University of Technology. See http://dsg.tuwien.ac.at/teaching/courses/ase
Assessment of IEC-61499 and CDL for Function Block composition in factory-wide system integration
•Date: July, 2013
•Linked to: PLANTCockpit
Contact information
Tampere University of Technology, FAST Laboratory, P.O. Box 600, FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland
Email: fast@tut.fi www.tut.fi/fast
Conference: 11th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, INDIN 2013. Bochum, Germany – July 29-31 2013
Title of the paper: Assessment of IEC-61499 and CDL for Function Block composition in factory-wide system integration
Authors: Borja Ramis, Jorge Garcia, Jose L. Martinez Lastra
If you would like to receive a reprint of the original paper, please contact us
Carles Bo, d'ICIQ, presenta IoChem-BD, un repositori de dades en química computacional. L'objectiu és elaborar una base de dades de forma normalitzada, definint processos, què es guarda i com es fa.
Aquesta presentació ha tingut lloc a la TSIUC'14, celebrada a la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona el passat 2 de desembre de 2014, sota el títol "Reptes en Big Data a la universitat i la Recerca".
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Empowering the Data Analytics Ecosystem: A Laser Focus on Value
The data analytics ecosystem thrives when every component functions at its peak, unlocking the true potential of data. Here's a laser focus on key areas for an empowered ecosystem:
1. Democratize Access, Not Data:
Granular Access Controls: Provide users with self-service tools tailored to their specific needs, preventing data overload and misuse.
Data Catalogs: Implement robust data catalogs for easy discovery and understanding of available data sources.
2. Foster Collaboration with Clear Roles:
Data Mesh Architecture: Break down data silos by creating a distributed data ownership model with clear ownership and responsibilities.
Collaborative Workspaces: Utilize interactive platforms where data scientists, analysts, and domain experts can work seamlessly together.
3. Leverage Advanced Analytics Strategically:
AI-powered Automation: Automate repetitive tasks like data cleaning and feature engineering, freeing up data talent for higher-level analysis.
Right-Tool Selection: Strategically choose the most effective advanced analytics techniques (e.g., AI, ML) based on specific business problems.
4. Prioritize Data Quality with Automation:
Automated Data Validation: Implement automated data quality checks to identify and rectify errors at the source, minimizing downstream issues.
Data Lineage Tracking: Track the flow of data throughout the ecosystem, ensuring transparency and facilitating root cause analysis for errors.
5. Cultivate a Data-Driven Mindset:
Metrics-Driven Performance Management: Align KPIs and performance metrics with data-driven insights to ensure actionable decision making.
Data Storytelling Workshops: Equip stakeholders with the skills to translate complex data findings into compelling narratives that drive action.
Benefits of a Precise Ecosystem:
Sharpened Focus: Precise access and clear roles ensure everyone works with the most relevant data, maximizing efficiency.
Actionable Insights: Strategic analytics and automated quality checks lead to more reliable and actionable data insights.
Continuous Improvement: Data-driven performance management fosters a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
Sustainable Growth: Empowered by data, organizations can make informed decisions to drive sustainable growth and innovation.
By focusing on these precise actions, organizations can create an empowered data analytics ecosystem that delivers real value by driving data-driven decisions and maximizing the return on their data investment.
Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation - Final Version - 5.23...John Andrews
SlideShare Description for "Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation"
Title: Chatty Kathy: Enhancing Physical Activity Among Older Adults
Description:
Discover how Chatty Kathy, an innovative project developed at the UNC Bootcamp, aims to tackle the challenge of low physical activity among older adults. Our AI-driven solution uses peer interaction to boost and sustain exercise levels, significantly improving health outcomes. This presentation covers our problem statement, the rationale behind Chatty Kathy, synthetic data and persona creation, model performance metrics, a visual demonstration of the project, and potential future developments. Join us for an insightful Q&A session to explore the potential of this groundbreaking project.
Project Team: Jay Requarth, Jana Avery, John Andrews, Dr. Dick Davis II, Nee Buntoum, Nam Yeongjin & Mat Nicholas
2. Outline
Motivation
Background
The Data Cleaning Process
Review of Machine Learning Techniques
Data-Cleaning Workflow
Results
Clustering
Classification
Summary
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3. Why Data Cleaning?
Many sources lead to different formats and standards.
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4. Why Data Cleaning?
Many sources lead to different formats and standards.
Migration becomes a costly issue
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5. Why Data Cleaning?
Many sources lead to different formats and standards.
Migration becomes a costly issue
Built-in database techniques are not capabable of
dealing with dirty data.
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6. Benefits of Data Cleaning
Less time for data maintenance
⇒ more time for key job functions
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7. Benefits of Data Cleaning
Less time for data maintenance
⇒ more time for key job functions
Removal of data inconsistencies
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8. Benefits of Data Cleaning
Less time for data maintenance
⇒ more time for key job functions
Removal of data inconsistencies
More complete and accurate data sources
,
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9. Benefits of Data Cleaning
Less time for data maintenance
⇒ more time for key job functions
Removal of data inconsistencies
More complete and accurate data sources
Identify organizational, process and data issues
⇒ enforce standards
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10. Outline
Motivation
Background
The Data Cleaning Process
Review of Machine Learning Techniques
Data-Cleaning Workflow
Results
Clustering
Classification
Summary
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12. Record Matching and Record Merging
Simple: Record Matching based on a key or a set of rules
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13. Record Matching and Record Merging
Simple: Record Matching based on a key or a set of rules
Difficult: Record Matching without a key
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14. Record Matching and Record Merging
Simple: Record Matching based on a key or a set of rules
Difficult: Record Matching without a key
Database operations are primarily restricted to joins on
fields and simple pattern matching.
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15. Outline
Motivation
Background
The Data Cleaning Process
Review of Machine Learning Techniques
Data-Cleaning Workflow
Results
Clustering
Classification
Summary
,
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17. Canopy Clustering
Canopy Clustering allows efficient clustering of data sources
which
are large
have records with a lot of attributes
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18. Canopy Clustering
Canopy Clustering allows efficient clustering of data sources
which
are large
have records with a lot of attributes
result in a lot of clusters
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19. Canopy Clustering
Idea: Apply a cheap distance measure to cluster the data
into overlapping canopies.
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20. Canopy Clustering Distance Measure
Use reverse indexing as a rough clustering constraint.
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21. Canopy Clustering Distance Measure
Use reverse indexing as a rough clustering constraint.
Jaccard similarity coefficient: J(A, B) =
|A∩B|
|A∪B|
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22. Canopy Clustering Distance Measure
Use reverse indexing as a rough clustering constraint.
Jaccard similarity coefficient: J(A, B) =
|A∩B|
|A∪B|
The ratio between the number of word matches and the
number of total words between two records determines
how similar the records are.
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23. Support Vector Machines
Maximize the
margin m = 2
||w||
Kernel trick
Black box
technique
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35. Outline
Motivation
Background
The Data Cleaning Process
Review of Machine Learning Techniques
Data-Cleaning Workflow
Results
Clustering
Classification
Summary
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36. Clustering Results
Find "best" features and parameters
Trade-off between quality and size of the search space
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37. Outline
Motivation
Background
The Data Cleaning Process
Review of Machine Learning Techniques
Data-Cleaning Workflow
Results
Clustering
Classification
Summary
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38. Classification Results for Dataset I
How does the number of training samples affect the results?
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39. Classification Results for Dataset II
How does the computation of features affect the results?
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40. Summary
Data Cleaning using Clustering and Classification
Business Value: Reduced Manpower + Improved Data
Quality
Future Work
Improved features
Automatic selection of parameters
Scalability
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